Critique of Current School Curriculum

Ooh, I hope I don't get in trouble, but, um, school is...

I think that we got so caught up in school being a tradition that we stopped using

it as a learning tool, which it should be.

Like, up to this day, I mean, school should be,

I think there should be a different

curriculum in each and every, like, neighborhood, you know?

Because I'm going to Tam- Tampa High, and I'm learning about the basics,

but they're not basic for me, you know?

And it's like, they're, they're not to, to get us ready for today's world.

They're not, that's not helping. It's just what they took,

so it's what we're gonna

take, you know? And that's why the streets have taught me.

And, um,

but school is really important, reading, writing, arithmetic.

But I think after you learn reading, writing, ar- arithmetic, that's it.

But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic,

then teach you

reading and writing arithmetic again, then again, then again,

just making it harder

and harder just s- to keep you busy, and I,

that's where I think they messed up.

There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education,

a real

sex education class, not just pictures and diaphragms and unlogical terms and

things like that. There should be a drug class.

There should be sex education.

There should be a class on scams. There should be a class on religious

cults.

There should be a, a class on police brutality.

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on racism in

America.

There should be a class on why people are hungry, but they're not.

Their class is on gym, you know? Physical education,

let's learn volleyball, because one day we're gonna... You know,

it's, it's...

There are classes like algebra, where I've yet to go to a store and said,

um, "Can

I have XY plus two, and give me my Y change back,

thank you." You know?

I, I ca- I think you could let me out.

I've lived a- I've lived alone by myself, and the things that, that I, that helped

me were the things I learned from my mother and from the streets.

And reading has helped me. I mean, school has taught me reading, which is,

I love

reading, writing, and arithmetic. That's it. I don't fit in. That's hell.

It's hell when you can't be around your peers.

All my life, I've lived around Black people,

poor people, but I can't live around

poor people now because they'll rob me. And why would they rob me?

Because they're starving, 'cause there's no money here.

But they're telling me now that I made a little money,

I have to move here.

So it's not like no one's ever trying to deal with this section.

They're just moving away from it, and we got more stars coming from the

ghetto, but

they're gonna, they're gonna all move this way.

You know what I'm saying?

So it's like all, all that society is doing is

leeching off the ghetto. They use the ghetto for their pain, for

their sorrow, for their culture, for their music, for their happiness,

for their

movies. They talk about Boyz in the Hood. You know what I'm saying?

I don't wanna be another young... I don't wanna be 50 years old at a BET We

Shall Overcome, um, achievement awards. You know what I'm saying?

Uh-uh, not me. You know, I want, when they see me, they know

that every day when

I'm breathing, it's, it's, it's for us to go farther, you know?

Every time I speak, I want the truth to come out.

You know what I'm saying?

Every time I speak, I want to shiver.

You know, I don't want them to be like they know

what I'm gonna say 'cause it's

polite. They know what I'm gonna say, and even if I get in trouble,

you know what

I'm saying? That, ain't that what we're supposed to do?

It's, I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world

or I'm gonna change the world, but I

guarantee that I will spark the, the, the brain that will change the world, and

that's our job is to spark somebody else watching us.

We, we might not be the ones, but let's not be selfish,

and because we're not gonna

change the world, let's not talk about how we should change

it.

I don't know how to change it, but I know if I keep talking about how

dirty it is

out here, somebody gonna clean it up.

Like Trump, gimme, gimme, gimme, push, push, push, push, step, step, step,

crush, crush, crush. I mean, nobody should be hitting lotto for 36

million and we

got people starving in the streets.

There's no way that these people should own planes and their people don't have

houses, apartments, shacks, drawers,

pants. I mean, can you imagine somebody having $32

million,

32, and this person has nothing? I mean, and then these ty- these

are the type of people that get humanitarian awards,

millionaires.

How can they be humanitarians? By the fact that they millionaires

and there's so

many poor people shows how inhumane they are.

I think there is a way. It just takes to be revolutionary.

Look, okay, I know you're rich. I know you got $40 billion,

but can you just

keep it to one house? You only need one house.

And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms?

I mean, why have 52 rooms and you know there's somebody with no

room?

It just don't make sense to me.